Mike Tully is a New York-based graphic designer and art director, specializing in the development of typographically-focused graphic identities, publications, environmental design and interactive projects. He is currently working with Special Projects & Brand Identity team at The New York Times and on independent design projects. Previously, he worked for agencies, studios and institutions, including Wolff Olins, Local Projects, Paperwhite Studio and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He’s visited as a critic at Parsons School of Design and teaches typography at the School of Visual Arts. Contact and Information ⤵︎

Identity, website, materials, and ongoing art direction for New York-based industrial design studio, Visibility. Visibility is an internationally recognized industrial design studio based in New York City. It was founded by Joseph Guerra and Sina Sohrab in 2012. The visual identity and application is informed by the partners’ approach to creating objects that are deliberately understated in form, yet humanistic and enduring in their sensibility. Website programmed by Tyler Madsen.

Seasonal calendar designs in support of Jazz at Lincoln Center as a part of the in-house design team.

Jack’s Wife Freda is a lively bistro located in SoHo and the West Village in New York City. I designed menus, postcards, take-out bags, illustrations, cookbook layouts and printed collateral. I also expanded initial lettering into a custom font, Jack’s Right Hand, for usage across all materials.

The first issue of S.L.U.M. Lab (Sustainable Living Urban Model), Last Round Ecology. This 100-page, large-format newsprint publication was a collaboration between Columbia University GSAAP, City College of New York Department of Landscape Architecture, and ETH Zurich. It brings together the perspectives of international urban planners, architects, and students to work towards an understanding of the links between urban planning, ecology, and poverty alleviation.

A retail product that helps realize the private travel service of Jetsetter. The product includes a clamshell containing a photo book documenting destinations, a certificate for personal travel consultations, and maps of each location included die-cut to hold a small travel journal.

Hallway is a font inspired by the lack of availability and variety of condensed serifs. It was initiated as a project under the guidance of James Montalbano’s Typeface Design course at Parsons School of Design and is currently in development.

Art direction, custom typography and packaging for the original motion picture score for the film Air. The score was composed by Edo Van Breemen and released through Nettwerk Records.

For a full portfolio, CV, if you'd like to work together, upcoming availability, or to just say hi and have a friendly chat: mike@mike-tully.com